London police said to foil terror plot
Authorities arrest 2 young men who allegedly planned to carry out jihadist attacks against British targets
Two men were arrested in London on Thursday for plans to carry out Islamist terror attacks in the UK, Sky News reported.
The two, aged 19 and 20, were being questioned as police searched a number of properties and vehicles tied to them.
According to the report, police believed that planned attacks were not of the “lone wolf” variety, but linked to other Islamic extremists.
The Evening Standard reported that Islamic State involvement was suspected, though that has not been confirmed by officials.
UK police have previously said they foiled seven terror plots between late 2014 and early 2016.
Britain’s most senior counterterrorism police officer warned earlier in the year that there was high risk of further “spectacular” attacks by IS on Western targets.
Europe is on edge after a string of attacks in recent months.
On July 14, a Tunisian man rammed a truck into crowds of revelers in the southern French city of Nice, killing 85 people.
Also in July Germany saw two attacks by migrants in the southern state of Bavaria — an axe rampage on a train and a suicide bombing. In Munich, an 18-year-old German-Iranian also went on a gun rampage in a shopping mall, leaving nine people dead.
Earlier this year, suicide bombers struck Brussels airport and a metro station on March 22 in another coordinated jihadist attack claimed by IS near the European Union headquarters, killing 32 people.
In November 2015, a coordinated jihadist attack claimed by IS in Paris left 130 people dead. In January 2015, a jihadist assault on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris left 12 dead while another four were killed in an attack on a kosher supermarket in the city.
